Finding El Dorado
See, I like seeing beautiful place that amaze you and make you stand there in awe. But part of being a nomad is making places your home and that's why I am always interested in how people's lives look like. I think renting a car in Buenos Aires, going up north and then to Uruguay was the best thing to do and so far my favorite part of the trip. Kind of unfair, because Philipp had to drive all the time, but hey, he offered! The freedom to stop when you see something that you like, change your route and observing people just living their lives, me gustaaaa. After a while we got tired of the music though and up in the north the reception for radio was baaaaad.
I heard so much about drinking mate and how everyone in Uruguay has their own cup plus thermos with them. The last time I had a proper mate is maybe seven years ago, so what we discovered in Iguazu was actually a take-away cup plus thermos, a very japanese thing to do! On our way back from Iguazu we bought one, refilled it with yerba (the leaves you put into the cup) and got fresh hot water at the gas station.
German Autobahn is nothing compared to the highway leading out of Buenos Aires. Multiple lanes and traffic that would be a crime in Germany ;)
On the road to the north... and the streets kept becoming worse. Endless streets with no one but us, truckers stopping for "Parrilla" (Barbecue) and a change in nature since we went up into rain forest area. Deep green and awesome sunsets! It is interesting to see how traffic is handled differently in every country. Instead of building four lanes, build three and let each side have two lanes to speed up for a certain time and then the other way around. There are a lot of truckers on the road and they are allowed to go 90 km/h, so some of them are nice enough to let you know by blinking when the opposite lane is free.
Yerba fields, which you can see a lot in the north
After a while, the earth became red. Everything was covered in red mud and the splatters on the car didn't go away even when we returned the car in Buenos Aires ten days later.
A normal street in one of the villages in the north
A quick stop in Posadas right on the border to Paraguay. The city was full of half finished building...
The triangle of Paraguay, Argentina and Brasil just divided by a river
Pictures mostly taken by: Philipp Pajak
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